Analysis of cell load coupling for LTE network planning and optimization

IEEE Transactions on Wireless Communications

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 2287-2297

  Siomina, Iana ^a   Yuan, Di ^a,b  

^a ERICSSON RESEARCH   (Sweden)

^b LINKÖPING UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

3.5G and 4G technologies; cell load coupling; network planning; optimization; system modeling

Indexed keywords

ARBITRARY NETWORKS; CELLULAR NETWORK; COMPUTATIONAL ASPECTS; COUPLING RELATION; LOAD COUPLING; LOAD FACTORS; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MODELING AND ANALYSIS; NETWORK CONFIGURATION; NETWORK PLANNING; NETWORK PLANNING AND OPTIMIZATION; NONUNIFORM TRAFFIC; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; PERFORMANCE MODELING; RESOURCE CONSUMPTION; SUFFICIENT AND NECESSARY CONDITION; SYSTEM MODELING; SYSTEM MODELS;

CELLS; CELLULAR NEURAL NETWORKS; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION;

WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84862847254     PISSN: 15361276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TWC.2012.051512.111532     Document Type: Article

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